Nelson's View

Nelson McCausland MLA (Democratic Unionist Party - Constituency: North Belfast). A personal blog in which I comment on a wide variety of issues, political, cultural, social, historical and religious. If something takes my attention, then I may well comment on it.

Saturday, 28 January 2012

Flush Convenience Store

Yesterday afternoon as I was driving down the Springfield Road in West Belfast I noticed a shop called the Flush Convenience Store. The nam...

'Cheap drink caused death'

A cross-border conference on alcohol abuse was held in Armagh on Thursday and it was reported that last year 284 people died in Northern Ire...

Friday, 27 January 2012

UKIP's libertarian leader

Nigel Farage MEP is the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party. Many Ulster folk will share their stance in relation to the Europ...

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Dickens and Belfast

Last night (25 January) there was an article in the Belfast Telegraph on the visits to Belfast by the English author Charles Dickens. This...

Saturday, 21 January 2012

A new approach to housing

In a post earlier today on Slugger O'Toole, Mick Fealty said: 'Whatever the nature of the problems in housing provision, and it has ...

The nanny state?

In his Irish News column today (21 January), Newton Emerson asked: 'Now that health minister Edwin Poots has banned cigarette vending m...

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Gunfight at OK Corral - the Ulster connections

The Gunfight at the OK Corral took place on 26 October 1881 at Tombstone, Arizona Territory. The gunfight lasted less than a minute but tod...

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